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Last week Copenhagen opened its workshops, courtyards, showrooms, and historic townhouses for 3 Days of Design, transforming the city into a living exhibition of contemporary design. Over three days, we wandered between districts, stepping into spaces both familiar and unexpected, discovering the work of established names alongside emerging voices.
What stayed with us were not the loudest statements, but the quieter pieces - designs that revealed their value through thoughtful craftsmanship, material honesty, and longevity. A chair built to serve for decades rather than seasons. A cabinet designed to age gracefully alongside its owner. Lighting that treated illumination not as an afterthought, but as a material in its own right.
Here is our round-up of the brands and pieces that left a lasting impression.
Vipp
One of the standout installations from the fair was at the Vipp Garage, where the Barcelona-based studio Mesura transformed the space into an ephemeral guest house. A steel framework wrapped entirely in a vibrant plaid textile extended from walls and furniture into the courtyard, creating an immersive environment that announced itself before visitors even stepped inside.
At its centre sat a conversation pit formed from modular Loft sofa sections, reinforcing the studio's exploration of home as a shared experience. The installation was accompanied by a limited-edition Vipp x Mesura Swivel chair, developed specifically for the project and carrying the distinctive material language of the installation beyond the three-day event.
Alongside the installation, Vipp showed the Swivel chair in its two newest forms, models **454** and **455**. Both bring a higher backrest and a more spacious seat over the original, developed for long days at a desk or in a meeting - the 454 sits 61.5cm wide, with a 50cm seat depth, on a polished aluminium base available with castors or gliders, upholstered in aniline leather (camel, black and a bosco green among the finishes) or fabric, with elastic webbing beneath for give.
The 455 reads as the more considered variant of the same family. Both are intended to pair with Vipp's Studio Desk.
Vipp also previewed a new, larger desk and two new striking dining tables.
Finn Juhl
The home of Finn Juhl is its own argument for why thoughtful design matters. Walking through the rooms, you are reminded that Juhl never viewed furniture as simply functional objects. Instead, he saw them as part of a larger conversation about how we live, move, gather, and find comfort in our surroundings. Every room feels carefully considered yet deeply personal, revealing a designer who understood that the best interiors are not staged compositions but lived environments.
At the Finn Juhl showroom, a new silver cabinet was introduced - a piece very much in the Heirloom register, made to be kept and handed on.
Formakivet
At their Nordhavn showroom, FORMARKIVET presented New Dualism - an exhibition that felt like a precise statement of intent. The Copenhagen design house has always worked in productive tension: industrial materials held to a refined standard, classic forms recast in contemporary language. That contradiction was most legible in the Cubio collection, which grew again this year with the addition of a bench. Cast aluminium, offered in raw or semi-gloss light beige, each bench develops its own patina over time - the brand treats the micro-scratches and surface variations as part of the material's character rather than something to be corrected.
Alongside Cubio, the Ion upholstered seating was shown in full. Dining chairs and armchairs in fabric families ranging from cotton chenille to wool bouclé, and the Marmacén home scent collection, a fragrance range drawing on the woody warmth of oud and benzoin with top notes of frankincense and pine, lent the space an atmosphere that felt imoressive and considered.
PP Møbler
During 3daysofdesign, PP Møbler invited us inside the Flagship Store to mark two significant milestones. The Circle Chair celebrates 40 years, presented with a dedicated focus on its demanding construction and refined details.
At the same time, the Papa Bear Chair marks its 75-year anniversary, shown in special variations and with new additions to the collection. Together, they framed an exhibition centred on material understanding, precision and the ongoing work in the workshop.
Malte Gormeson
At the Cabinetmakers Gallery in The Conary on Dronningens Tværgade, Malte Gormsen presented new work from the Herlev workshop, combining traditional cabinetmaking with contemporary production techniques. The result was a collection defined by precision, material quality, and understated craftsmanship.
Three pieces stood out. The Abar stool from the Skt. Annæ series by Space Copenhagen brought a sculptural simplicity that highlighted the beauty of the materials. The Trapeza chair by Christian+Jade offered a clean, architectural presence with carefully considered proportions. A taller version of the MG406 stool by Norm Architects completed the trio, extending the versatility of the original design while retaining its refined character.
Anour
At its showroom on Bredgade, ANOUR used this year's festival to deepen a single idea: light treated as a material rather than a fitting. The PARS series was the anchor - a modular system in natural onyx, each piece carrying its own veins and tones, paired with refined brass so the stone seems to hold the light as much as pass it on.
A-N-D Lighting
One of the most considered presentations this year came from Vancouver-based studio A-N-D, which used 3 Days of Design to open its permanent European home - a former commercial printing press in Copenhagen's Latin Quarter.
The three-floor space, titled North Quarters, felt more like an inhabited interior than a trade show stand: on the ground floor, pendants from the Contour and Pebble collections hung in a necklace-like formation above a 16-foot dining table by Canadian designer Christian Woo; in the basement, the original industrial surfaces were left largely intact, letting floor lamps and sconces speak quietly against raw walls; upstairs, rows of Column floor lamps anchored a contemplative room with an audio installation built around sound waves.
Founded by designers Lukas Peet and Caine Heintzman, A-N-D has always approached lighting as a long-term proposition - every LED across their range is replaceable, and the studio designs for a lifespan of 20 to 30 years. It's the brand we return to when a project calls for something that earns its place in a room rather than announces it.
3daysofdesign is Denmark’s leading annual design event, turning Copenhagen into a playground for creative minds.
Every June, Copenhagen turns its showrooms, courtyards and back-streets into a slow, walkable conversation about how we live. 3 Days of Design - now in its thirteenth edition - runs from 10 to 12 June 2026, with around 400 brands spread across eight design districts: Holmen, Nordhavn, Islands Brygge, Kultur, Rosengård, Kongens Nytorv, Christianshavn and Frederiksstaden.
This year's theme is Make This Moment Matter. A quiet invitation, in the festival's own words, to step away from speculation and pay attention to what design is doing now, for the way we live, the materials we use, and the things we choose to keep.
We come back each year because it suits the way we think. The brands we represent are makers first: workshops, family-run mills, cabinetmakers, glass-blowers. Copenhagen in June is one of the few weeks where you can see most of them in the same city, in spaces they have shaped themselves. Here are the conversations we'll be following.
The Craft of Permanence: Wood, Bone & the Nordic Tradition
House of Finn Juhl
A pointed choice this year: Explore a program centered around heritage, materiality, and craftsmanship. At their flagship showroom on Gothersgade, the exhibition The Deviation is in the Detail, curated by Mentze Ottenstein, unfolds from Finn Juhl's belief that true character emerges through nuance and attention to detail. In collaboration with Sea New York, embroidered textiles introduce a new perspective on Finn Juhl's iconic furniture. At Edition Copenhagen in Christianshavn, the installation The Workshop offers a closer look at the making of Finn Juhl's furniture, as the entire space is transformed into a living production site.
The Deviation is in the Detail
Location: House of Finn Juhl, Flagship Showroom, Gothersgade 9, Copenhagen
The Workshop
Location: Edition Copenhagen, Strandgade 66, Copenhagen
PP Møbler
A double anniversary year for the Wegner workshop: forty years of the Circle Chair, seventy-five of the Papa Bear and the Flag Halyard. The newly redesigned flagship turns into a working space for the duration - cabinetmaker and weaver in residence, the Circle Chair shown stage by stage from raw timber to woven seat. The most significant moment is the first production, by invitation, of the pp101: a 1955 Hans J. Wegner side-chair brought into the catalogue for the first time, drawn straight from the archive in oak or beech with a hand-woven linen webbing seat.
PP Møbler Flagship Store, Bryggernes Plads 11, 1799 Copenhagen V. 10–12 June, 10.00–18.00.
Gemla
Sweden's oldest furniture-maker, established in 1861, still steam-bending wood in Diö, joins the Frederiksstaden district this year. The Gemla story is one of long, patient craft: bentwood chairs that have evolved across generations through quiet collaboration with designers including Sami Kallio, Norm Architects and Färg & Blanche.
Residence of the Finnish Ambassador, Grønningen 11, CPH.
The New Originals: Contemporary Makers Redefining the Object
Meridiani
Meridiani returns to Copenhagen on two fronts. The Meridiani Point at Rue Verte holds the brand's current collections in central Copenhagen, while Meridiani House - Christine Callsen's five-room apartment on Strandvejen in Hellerup - continues as a fully furnished residential setting, the kind of slow, lived-in showroom we always recommend visitors make the journey north for. Their reading of Make This Moment Matter leans, as ever, on materials and atmosphere.
Meridiani Point at Rue Verte, Ny Østergade 11, 1101 Copenhagen K. Meridiani House, Strandvejen 163, 2900 Hellerup. 10–12 June, daily.
Vipp
Vipp return to 3days, where Barcelona-based architecture and design studio @mesura.eu reimagines the idea of a guesthouse. Typically a place of retreat, it becomes something else entirely. At Vipp’s Copenhagen campus, the Barcelona-based architecture and design studio presents a vibrant new take on the Vipp guesthouse - transforming it into a bold, immersive experience.
Vipp HQ, Snorresgade 22, 2300 Copenhagen S. 10–12 June, daily.
Overgaard & Dyrman
Jasper Overgaard trained as a leather craftsman. Christian Dyrman trained as a blacksmith. They met at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 2013 founded a studio that fuses these two ancient crafts into furniture for the present. Every O&D piece is made to order, individually stamped and numbered. Their Wire Collection - structural steel and aniline-dyed leather - caused an immediate sensation at Imm Cologne. The Circle Chair followed, its compass-inspired backrest designed to be observed from every angle. Furniture conceived as both functional object and three-dimensional art.
Studio & Showroom (by appointment) Frederiksgade 1, 4th floor, 1265 Copenhagen, Kongens Nytorv District
Van Rossum
Founded in a Dutch workshop in 1978, Van Rossum has spent nearly five decades perfecting what solid wood can be. Their sober, timeless aesthetic is built on certified oaks and European hardwoods, handcrafted by artisans who regard each piece as both functional object and quiet sculpture. At 3 Days of Design, the brand habitually expands its frame - expect not just dining tables and chairs, but new moves into lighting, rugs and accessories, each material conversation anchored in the same measured, gallery-like restraint that defines their scenography.
Nyhavn 71, 1051 Copenhagen, Wednesday 10 June to friday 12 June 2026
FORMARKIVET
A new form for classic. Formarkivet are exhibiting at their Nordhavn showroom during 3daysofdesign. New Dualism, their 2026 exhibition, holds that tension beautifully: classic principles and modern sensibilities, each pushing against the other until something original emerges. One of the ones to watch.
Århusgade 128D, 1st–2nd Floor, 2150 Copenhagen, in the Nordhavn district.
Malte Gormeson
The Herlev cabinetmaker once again decamps to its Cabinetmakers Gallery at The Conary in Frederiksstaden - the kind of space where you can read the joinery from across the room. The Malte Gormsen Kollektion sits alongside pieces by Space Copenhagen, Norm Architects, Nanna Ditzel and Christian+Jade, all built in the Herlev workshop. The MG Sofa by Space Copenhagen has been shortlisted for Furniture of the Year, and is worth sitting with quietly.
Malte Gormsen Cabinetmakers Gallery, The Conary, Dronningens Tværgade 26, 1302 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily.
The Atmosphere Makers: Light, Crystal & the Presence of a Room
Jeroen De Ruddere
Belgian designer who shapes sculptural lighting from oak, walnut, mahogany and solid bronze is exhibiting Meet the Family, presenting the complete collection of his handcrafted wooden objects and lamps under one roof for the first time. A quiet, architectural body of work; very much in the conversation we like to have.
Jeroen De Ruddere, Frederiksgade 1, 3rd floor, 1265 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily.
Anour
Anour is Farsi for light. It is also the name that architect Arash Nourinejad gave to his Copenhagen lighting studio in 2007, and the word perfectly captures what his lamps do: they make light feel like a material decision rather than an afterthought. Working with some of the last remaining braziers in Denmark - artisans who keep a dying craft alive - Anour produces handcrafted pendants, floor lamps and wall lights in brass, copper and blued steel, each individually surface-treated using organic oxidising techniques. The I-MODEL, their first and most iconic lamp, has grown into a whole family. Their new PARS collection introduces modular onyx, where natural stone veining means no two pieces are identical. Design rooted in the past, made by hand, built for the future.
28A Gallery (with Kolon & Norm Architects) Bredgade 28A, 1260 Copenhagen K
A-N-D
A real moment for the Vancouver studio: A-N-D opens its first permanent showroom outside Canada, in a listed Copenhagen courtyard building that once printed paper. Three floors, three functions, and three new lighting series from Lukas Peet and Caine Heintzman - shown alongside earlier pieces in a sensory presentation that suits the brand's instinct for light as material rather than fixture. We've been following A-N-D quietly for a few years; this feels like the right moment to introduce them properly to our European audience.
A-N-D Copenhagen, Studiestræde 34, 1455 Copenhagen K. 10–12 June, daily. Opening party Tuesday 9 June, evening.
Bomma
Bomma fills Copenhagen's newly reopened historic Court Theatre (Hofteatret) with their Fragments of Light installation - handblown crystal chandeliers accompanied by live performances every 30 minutes. A spectacular venue for spectacular lighting. Christiansborg / Rosengård District.
Hofteatret (Court Theatre)
Explore a map of our favourite brands
The festival spans eight distinct design districts. These twelve venues form a natural walking route through the city's most beautiful neighbourhoods - from the grand Frederiksstaden palaces to Carlsberg Byen and the intimate streets of Rosengården.
Kongens Nytorv
House of Finn Juhl: Gothersgade 9, 1123 Copenhagen
Anour: Bredgade 28A, 1260 Copenhagen 18–20 June
Meridiani: Rue Verte, Ny Østergade 11, 1101 Copenhagen and the Meridiani House
Van Rossum: Framing at Odd Fellow Palæet
Gemla: Framing at Odd Fellow Palæet
Christianshavn
Vipp: Snorresgade 22, 2300 Copenhagen
Frederiksstaden
De La Espada: Esplanaden 8D, 1263 Copenhagen
Malte Gormeson: The Conary, Dronningens Tværgade 26, 1302 Copenhagen
Overgaard & Dyrman: Showroom on the 4th floor at Frederiksgade 1 - by appointment only
Rosengård
A-N-D: Sankt Peders Stræde 45B, 1453 Copenhagen
PP Møbler: PP Møbler Flagship StoreBryggernes Plads 111799 Copenhagen V
Bomma: Hofteatret Court Theatre
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